The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-06-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES:
Items Of Intercat Gathered from Various
OunPters, ...

Canon Wnberforce is talking temperance |
to crowded churches In Canada.
President Garrett, of the b. and o., will |
sail for Europe on the 18th inst.
Secretary and Mrs. Endicott are in New !
York on shopping expedition.
DR.. McCosh, of Princeton, is suffering
from severe attack of bronchitis.
Mime. Janauschek is listening to the
myriad voices of the Newport waves
Mr.. Sexton NJ p, is to be the Parnellitc
candidate for Lord Mayor of Dublin.
President Sully, of the Richmond Termi
nal, is buying heavily of real estate in the
South.
Now that the base ball season is fairly on
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is as happy
rs any boy.
Phillips Brooks preached his last sermon
before sailing for Europe to crowded
church last Sunday.
At Winchester, Va, Confederate Memo
rial Day was celebrated with much spirit,
though the rain fell nearly all lay.
Portsmouth, Va, has been added to the
iist OF free delivery post Offices to be estab-
lished on July 1.
The Queens jubilee guests will occupy
all the royal and many aristocratic private
residences in London.
~, Mr. Corcoran's paralysis does not extend.
The sufferers age is considered the chief
element OF danger in his case.
Dir Powdcrly is to be entertained by the
Boston Common Council when he visits
that city this week
Adolph Reich, Of New York, who mur-
dered his wife, was Thursday sentenced to
be hanged July 30.
The Grant Monument Association invite
designs and drawings for a monument to be
erected in Riverside Park.
twenty five thousand bar-maids of yari-
Gus degrees of beauty dispense calf and
all TO the thirsty dcnizens of London.
Senator Sherman left Chicago for his
nome at Mansfield Saturday. He will make
no more political speeches, he says, until
fall
Miss Mary n. Murfrcc, otherwise known
rs Charles Egbert Craddock, is now in
New York on visit of both pleasure and
business.
Queen Kapiolani and suite have arrived
IN London. A royal carriage was sent
from Buckingham Palace to meet the party
at the depot.
The loss Of the steamer Sir John Law
renee OIL the coast near Calcutta is con-
frmed. The steamer carried 73O souls and
| 1t is believed that all were lost.
Evangclists Jones and Small! took nearly
81, ,2O0 out of Rome, Georgia, as the result
OF one weeks haying while the cvangelistic
sun shOnc.
Mayor Hewitt says he smiles when men
talk to him Of working eight and nine
hours a day, because he works from 10 to
II hours himself
Charles ID. Keep, editor of the IVaN
Street Nesos, died Thursday at Long Branch.
Ills wife on Wednesday obtained a divorce
from him i'll Philadelphia.
The Platt Grant episode in New York |
State has brought out the former as the |
acknowledged leader of the Republicans of |
the Empirc State Of the North.
Mrs Phelps, the wife of our Minister to
England, has achieved the distinction of |
being classcd with two duchcsscs as the |
best dressed women at the last drawing
room.
The hCadstonc on George Eliot's grave
bears the words Mary Ann Cross above the
name by which the great author was better
| known.
Iarn"!is conference with Morley and Sir
| Charles Russell resulted in the adoption hy
| the lIi>h leader Of the Gladstonian tactics
of insisting only on important amendments
to the crimes bill
MIR. GladStOnc's tour through Wales was
uhdGrtaken for the purpose Of stirring up |
the VI clShmcn on the subject of home rule, |
Great crowds greet him at every station.
Charles III. Sawyer, who failed of q pop. |
ular election as the Republican candidaic |
Tor Governor Of New Hampshire, has been |
elected to that position by the Legislature.
Near Stringtown, Parker county, Texas,
lightning struck the house of Il family |
named Iccbles. Mrs. PEBBLES and an in. |
tant iii her arms were killed in their bed.
AT Pittsburg all the differences between
the stove manufacturers and the mouldcrs |
have been amicably settled, and work has |
been resumed in all tho foundrics in that |
section.
Sunday night NJ. B. Farley, manager of
thc Danylllc light works, shot and killed |
George w. Garner, young man of rs, |
who had been crimnally intimate with
Farlcy's wife.
The Democrats of the New Hampshire
Legislature have nominated Hon. Harry
Bingham, of Littleton, for Senator. The
RepuhlIcans have nominated VIM. e. |
Chandler.
The election of officers of the New York
Cotton Exchange for the ensuing wear re-
suited Us follows: President, Charles D.
Miller; Vice President, j. II. Parker; |
Treasurer Walter r. Miller
Lester Wallacl has mortgagcd his New
York theatre for $l02, 900, for the purpose |
of paying off all the other mortgages and |
of making some needed improvements on |
the building.
At Austin Texas, the Uritcd States com.
missioner discharged from custody the |
alleged train robbers, Joe Barbour, John |
Craft, Cheed Craft and Usscry brothers, an |
alibt having been established in each case. |
The explosion Of tank of gasoline in
CnQttQnOnpl IlnrSI0V afternoon
big fire which destroyed several thousand |
dollars worth Of property. Two men
were killed and several were wounded.
Trying to chew chocolate caramcls with
false teeth, and cssaying to unite fast knot
ted shoestrings with dog skin gloves on, is
very much like trying to do business with.
out advertising.
The injunction of Judge Bond restrain
ing Virginia officials from enforcing Ger.
tain State laws forbiddng them to receive
coupons of State bonds in payment of taxes,